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- Creator:
- Malhotra, Garima and Ridley, Aaron J.
- Description:
- The goal of this research study is to understand the sensitivity of the IT region to the spatial variation of Kzz. This is done using the IT model, GITM, with different settings and spatial distributions for Kzz. We introduce latitudinal bands (longitudinally uniform) of 30 degrees width at equatorial and polar latitudes during different seasons similar to the previous observations in literature. We investigate the mechanisms through which a non-uniform global distribution of Kzz can alter the dynamics and thermal structure of the thermosphere, and how these effects compare to when a globally uniform value of Kzz is used.
- Keyword:
- Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere, Eddy Diffusion, Thermospheric Dynamics, Thermospheric composition and mixing, Lower-Upper Thermosphere Vertical Coupling, Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model, and Eddy Mixing
- Citation to related publication:
- Malhotra, G., Ridley, A.J. (2021). Impacts of Spatially Varying Eddy Diffusion in the Lower Thermosphere on the Ionosphere and Thermosphere using GITM - Sensitivity Study. and A.J. Ridley, Y. Deng, G. Tóth, The global ionosphere–thermosphere model, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 68, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 839-864, ISSN 1364-6826, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2006.01.008.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Fuller, Jennifer, Rowan, Erin, Landgraf, Ava, Alofs, Karen, Foufopoulos, Johannes, and Gronewold, Andrew
- Description:
- This study investigates the rapid decline of black tern (Chlidonias niger) over eight years in one of Michigan’s largest colonies, Lake St. Clair. 1. Nesting Success Model: A multiple logistic regression with a binomial (logit-link) fit using the glm() function from the ‘stats’ package in R (55) to determine the influence of habitat and biological predictors on nesting survival. 2. ArcMap visualization of Nesting Success: To visualize the geographic extent of the habitat’s potential to predispose nests’ vulnerability, the coefficients and intercept from our selected GLM were applied to raster layers in ArcMap using the Raster Calculator Tool. 3. Population Change & Habitat Extent: To quantify sub-colony breeding pair population size and their response to changes in sub-colony habitat in the geospatial model, we applied a general linear mixed model (GLMM) using the lmer() function from the ‘lme4’ package in R (55). Predictor variables were chosen a priori, and included the area of open water, uninhabitable vegetation (NDVI>0.72), any habitable area, and area with >50% hatch success.
- Keyword:
- black terns, wetlands, ecology, climate change, lake levels, Great Lakes, waterbirds, ornithology, general linear model, geospatial, GIS, nesting success, avian, and breeding
- Citation to related publication:
- Fuller, J., Rowan, E., Landgraf, A., Alofs, K., Foufopoulos, J., Gronewold, A., (2021). Collapse of a Black Tern Colony (Chlidonias niger) as a Result of Climate Change Driven Lake-Level Extremes and Anthropogenic Habitat Alteration [Data set]. University of Michigan - Deep Blue. and Fuller, J., et al. (2021). Shorebird colony collapses under climate driven lake-level rise and anthropogenic stressors. Forthcoming.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Lynch, Erin and van der Pluijm, Ben
- Description:
- High-resolution, low-angle XRD analysis of oriented clay samples (.txt files) and TC/EA, Mass Spectronometric analysis of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes (.xslx files)
- Keyword:
- fault gouge and geofluids
- Citation to related publication:
- In submission
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Herrick, Etienne M
- Description:
- This data was produced as part of field experiment investigating the extent, drivers, and consequences of functional trait variation in cover crops. Specifically, we studied the role of intraspecific trait variation in explaining interactions between species in cover crop mixtures, and whether and how intraspecific trait variation improves understanding of relationships between functional traits and ecosystem services from cover crops.
- Keyword:
- agroecology, cover crops, functional diversity, functional traits, intraspecific trait variation, ecosystem services, nitrogen, species interactions, and student-friendly
- Citation to related publication:
- Herrick, E., and Blesh, J. (2021) Intraspecific trait variation improves understanding and management of cover crop outcomes. Ecosphere.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Sun, Xin, Zhang, Kehui, Marks, Rebecca, Karas, Zachary, Eggleston, Rachel, Nickerson, Nia, Yu, Chi-Lin, Wagley, Neelima, Hu, Xiaosu, Caruso, Valeria, Tardif, Twila, Satterfield, Teresa, Chou, Tai-Li, and Kovelman, Ioulia
- Description:
- In a broad sense, this dataset explores morphological and phonological processing in English monolinguals and two bilingual populations, Chinese-English and Spanish-English, using a battery of standardized and self-developed behavioral measures, as well as fNIRS neuroimaging.
- Citation to related publication:
- Sun X, Zhang K, Marks R, Karas Z, Eggleston R, Nickerson N, Yu CL, Wagley N, Hu X, Caruso V, Chou TL, Satterfield T, Tardif T, Kovelman I. Morphological and phonological processing in English monolingual, Chinese-English bilingual, and Spanish-English bilingual children: An fNIRS neuroimaging dataset. Data Brief. 2022 Mar 12;42:108048. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108048. PMID: 35313503; PMCID: PMC8933821.
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Brang, David and Karthik, Ganesan
- Description:
- Data were acquired from 21 patients with intractable epilepsy undergoing clinical evaluation using iEEG. Patients ranged in age from 15-58 years (mean = 37.1, SD = 12.8) and included 10 females. Across all patients, data was recorded from a total of 1367 electrodes. Each participant were presented with multiple trials of auditory only and congruent audio-visual stimuli. On each trial a single phoneme was presented to the participant. Three variants of the tasks were used with each variant consisting of a different set of phonemes (variant A: /ba/ /da/ /ta/ /tha/, variant B: /ba/ /da/ /ga/, variant C: /ba/ /ga/ /ka/ /pa/). Trials were presented in a random order and phonemes were distributed uniformly across conditions. While conditions were matched in terms of trial numbers, participants completed a variable number of trials (based on task variant and the number of blocks completed). All provided data has been resampled to 1024 Hz during initial stages of processing for all participants. Data has been referenced in a bipolar fashion (signals subtracted from each immediately adjacent electrode in a pairwise manner) to ensure that the observed signals were derived from maximally local neuronal populations. The preprocessing steps followed have been described in the detailed description document in the attached materials. and The dataset zip folder consists of three main sub-folders: 1) Electrodes: This folder provides details regarding the individual electrodes for each subject, their MNI coordinates as well as their MNI vertices information according to freesurfer parcellations. This folder also consists of images of the physical location of each of the electrode sets. 2) Processed: This folder contains preprocessed data in all three frequencies (theta, beta and high gamma power) for individual subjects and the corresponding vertex locations for each of the electrodes from which their data was recorded. The images subfolder also contains figures provided in the main manuscript. 3) MatlabCodes: This folder contains all the matlab scripts required to reproduce the results provided in the main manuscript. LME_AvsAV_Main_Windows.m is the main file that an user has to run to reproduce the results.
- Keyword:
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Perception, and Mixed Effects Models
- Citation to related publication:
- Ganesan, K., Plass, J., Beltz, A. M., Liu, Z., Grabowecky, M., Suzuki, S., ... & Brang, D. (2020). Visual speech differentially modulates beta, theta, and high gamma bands in auditory cortex. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.07.284455
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Amir Salaree
- Description:
- We carry out a set of exploratory numerical experiments based on ocean bottom pressure and seismic data from a simulated linear array of SMART (Scientific Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunication) cable stations off the trench in the Sumatra-Java region. We use a set of earthquake rupture as well as submarine landslide scenarios to calculate tsunami propagation via hydrodynamic simulations. We also investigate the contribution of SMART stations to improvement of earthquake early warning by calculating the arrival times of seismic phases. Existing telecom cables can also contribute to the SMART network, if they are equipped with scientific sensors and repeaters. In this study we use the MOST (Method of Splitting Tsunami; Titov et al, 2016) to simulate tsunamis, and the TauP toolkit (Crotwell et al, 1999) to calculate seismic arrival times. This study was supported by grants from National Science Foundation (PREEVENTS geosciences directorate No. 1663769) and NASA JPL (Award NNN13D462T). - Crotwell, H.P., Owens, T.J. and Ritsema, J., 1999. The TauP Toolkit: Flexible seismic travel-time and ray-path utilities. Seismological Research Letters, 70(2), pp.154-160. Titov, V., Kânoğlu, U. and Synolakis, C.E., 2016, Development of MOST for real-time tsunami forecasting. J Waterw Port Coast Ocean Eng 142:03116004-1–03116004-16
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- SMART Cables, Tsunami, Earthquake, Landslide, Early Warning, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Sumatra, Java, and Simulation
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Salaree, Amir
- Description:
- Study of the effect of various rupture scenarios in Cascadia on tsunami hazard
- Keyword:
- Earthquake, Tsunami, Simulation, and Bathymetry
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Ramos, Marlon D., Yihe, H., Ulrich, T., Gabriel, A. A., and Thomas, A.
- Description:
- This study used three-dimensional, dynamic earthquake simulations to investigate how stress and friction levels on the Cascadia megathrust fault influence the final earthquake size and coastal subsidence patterns from the 1700 A.D. earthquake.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Moldwin, Mark B. and O'Brien, Paul
- Description:
- A new empirical model of the plasmapause location has been developed using density data from the plasma wave receiver onboard the CRRES spacecraft for nearly 1000 orbits. The “plasmapause” is identified here as the innermost sharp gradient in density (change of a factor of 5 in <0.5 L). Such a sharp gradient was observed on 73% of the CRRES inbound and outbound orbits that returned data. The plasmapause location is expressed as a linear function of Kp (previous 12 hour maximum) and local time. The model gives the linear best fit location of the plasmapause as well as the standard deviations of the model parameters.
- Keyword:
- Plasmapause and Plasmasphere
- Citation to related publication:
- Moldwin, M. B., Downward, L., Rassoul, H. K., Amin, R., and Anderson, R. R. (2002), A new model of the location of the plasmapause: CRRES results, J. Geophys. Res., 107( A11), 1339, doi:10.1029/2001JA009211 and O'Brien, T. P., and Moldwin, M. B. (2003), Empirical plasmapause models from magnetic indices, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 4, 1152. doi:10.1029/2002GL016007
- Discipline:
- Science